The Bourke Floods
We are glad ao be able to announce the receipt of a donation of L5 from the Sydney and Suburban Letter Carriers towards the Bourke Relief Fund…
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New South Wales Floods Relief Fund. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Seeing that an erroneous impression is abroad concerning the distribution of the funds sent to the central committee and that they are being given to the Bourke sufferers only, we…
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BOURKE, Thursday.--The weather is now fine and the streets are showing the effects of the return of wind and sun. The recent rains up the river have had the effect of making the…
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THE flood of federation talk still continues. "One wide, weary waste of waters" was the general description of that other flood which lately so nearly brought the town of Bourke…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New South Wales Floods Belief Fund. To the Editor
Sir,—Seeing that an erroneous impression is abroad concerning the distribution of the funds sent to the central committee, and that they are being given to the Bourke sufferers only, we ask…
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At a meeting of the executive committee of the above fund (Mr. John Young in the chair), it was resolved—That this committee, having relieved urgent cases of distress to men, women,…
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AT a meeting of the executive committee o the above fund (Mr. John Young in the chair) it was resolved--1. "That this committee, having relieved urgent cases of…
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Sir,--Seeing that an erroneous impression is abroad concerning the distribution of the funds sent to the central committee, and that they are being given to the Bourke…
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At a meeting of the executive committee of the Floods Belief Fund yesterday, Mr. John Young in the chair, it was resolved-- 1. That this committed having relieved urgent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods in the West. All Rivers Again Rising. a Serious Outlook for Wentworth. (By Telegraph.)
BOURKE, Friday.--The weather is again threatening and Blight showers foil this morning. The rivers are rising and in the Culgoa and Varrego big floods are expected. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Flood Expected at Hillston. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Hillston
Eighty-two points of rain fell ast night; the roads are very bad. We may expect heavy floods here, as the river is reported to be coming down a big banker…
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At a meeting of the executive committee of the above fund, Mr. John Young in the chair, it was resolved, —"That this committee having relieved urgent cases of distress to men, women, and children who were…
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A letter appears in to-day's Central Australian from Mr. F. E. Bloxham, one of the members of the Bourke Flood Relief Committee, replying to Mr. Wilkinson's letter in Tuesday's Herald. It states that…
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Sir,—I notice in your issue of to-day there are a number of letters, meat of them finding fault with my action in entering a public protest against the proposed proceedings in reference to the ball and the Bourke…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Floods on the Darling. Rough Experiences or a Mailman
WENTWORTH, Monday.—The Darling flood has reached as far as Para. The mail driver, Mr. A. Blake, had a rough experience in bringing the mails from Pooncarie to Wentworth. He left…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Floods Abroad. a Town Washed Away. Some Account of the Moors. Their Countey and Their Customs. (See illustration on page 27.)
A cablegram recently announced that the town of Serfou, in Morocco, had been flooded. Many Moors were drowned, and fifty Jews lost their lives, the water leaving the town, in ruins. We…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Flood-gates
Flood-gates are-constructed by only a few farmers in a proper manner, and many are compelled after every freshet to rebuild the fence crossing the stream. This should not be so, and need not be if the plan…
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The river reports are causing uneasiness, as the rivers are rising everywhere. At Walgett the Barwon is 32ft. Sin.; Namoi 27ft, rising; Mogil, 8ft. Gin., rising; Mungundi, 12ft. 5in., rising; Collarendabri, 17ft…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods on the Darling. Anxious Times at Wentworth. (By Telegraph.)
WENTWORTH, Saturday.--The mailman for Wilcannia, who left here on Monday, returned yesterday with the mails, only having gone some 30 miles out. He reports tho whole…
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WILCANNIA, Monday.— The bye-wash dam across Tallywalka Creek, on Tintinallogy Station, below the offset from Teryawynia Creek, was carried away during the height of the rise. This…
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